Does youtube PHAIL me!?

So we all know its coming now? These "Dreaded" changes for youtube? The Change that will switch the focus from its core existence to be more like a TV portal than a User generated video siteThats a Huge Shift from its grass roots beginnings, and if it scares you, dont worry, it should.


For all intents and purposes, the appeal of Youtube has always been that user generated video that peoplewant to see (pay attention to the fact i did not define what User generated consitutues YET), as some type of voyeristic fullfillment that you, the viewer, would normally be arrested for. (Because basically you would be peering into someones windows to see this type of reality situation?) That is what made the site and no one, not even the creators of the site, can deny that, no matter how much fact is laid out to bare out there claims, that modelworked in the age of reality TV and it worked because it was fresh, new and truthfully "unscripted" unlke its TV counterpart cousins.


Lets all acknowledge some things about youtube. the proliferation of video on the web is successful today because of the emergence ofyoutube and its huge popularity. oh sure there were predecessors that "fiddled" with the concept, maybe a few who could see the 50,000 ft level viewBut for all its existence, youtube did create and carry the banner,rallying the world to video on demand and video on the web. (I am not side stepping the technologies behind it all from the Likes of On2 Technologies FLIX and Macromedia, Now Adobe products Flash Media Server, but the initial NEED drove the creation and the re-creation of the tools necessary to make video on the web a reality.)


Secondly, youtube, being purchased by google, was a significant event. In buying Youtube for, what was then thought to be a ridiculousprice tag, Google gave validity to the prescence of streaming media on the web. Google showed the business world that it believed the futurerevovled loosely around the Youtube Model, and google should know, it is still hailed as the innovator of all things web. But what google purchasedWas not the actual "MODEL", they were more foresighted than that. Google purchased a formula that could be used to spawn more than justuser generated, silly, everyday people entertainment. Some where in Googles infinite knowledge, they saw a shiny, new, porshe shaped vehicle for communication/marketing that was unrestricted by a set loction or governmental entity. (take that in the internet sense of unrestricted)


Now we jump ahead, four years since and Youtube is the Mecca for all things video. some how the model succeeded and a gi-normous subculturesformed beneath this behemouths structure like a migrant tent city on a fertile spot of a manicured landscape. Hold that thoughtof Migrant City for a second, i'll get back to it.


I wanna stop here to briefly look at what i think, IMHO, where Youtube missed an oppurtunity by not thinking out of the box ( a rare lack of foresight on googles part as far as i am concerned and remember, i am biased, i am an inhabitant of the vagrant tent city), where it concerns user generated content. some where along the way, Youtube/Google introduced the partner program and i think we would be niave to think we werent guinea pigs for what was to come, the move towards revenue generated videos by bigger entities other than ourselves. Youtube gave every day users a chance to generate income by placing ads on videos and there by generating money for the parent as well as the children of the partnership program. In its existence, Youtube has never been profitable, and who's to say if google never purchased it, it will still be where it is today?But in establishing the Partner program, (WARNING: this statement caused visceral reactions and opinions last time i uttered it some 13 monthsago.) Youtube, in a partnership with other entities, namely people, DID NOT HELP these significant others by not promoting them across the site. most people still to this day, revile that statement, but let me do what i didnt do the first timei spoke those words, lets have a real world example.

Lets take the example of a lemonade stand, very simple.


I have a lemonade stand, i make the best lemonade in all the world. in factjust after opening my lemonade stand, my lines had grown around the block and it grows longer every day. I need to expand and make more locations to maximize my availabllity and profit. i need a PARTNER. so i sell franchises of my product and in order for those new locations to be fruitful and multiply, i need to let the public know they dont have to stand in line any more, i now have several locations for them to get the worlds best lemonade, i therefore ADVERTISE and tell the general public, if you are looking for the best lemonade in the worldyou can get it here or you can get it from these locations. thus earning money for myself as the parent company and helping my children subsidiairies by advertising their existence in this lemonade world.(its the old, you scratch my back, i scratch yours Theory)


Now replace that lemonade example for a youtube partner making videos for youtube? youtube never truly promoted the partner/guinea pig program. By featuring partners, it would have made more ad revenue by pointing causual users to those video, popping up more impressions/clicks and thus generating revenue that both parent and child could share. that was my point 13 months ago. if you partner with another entityand you want that partership to be successful, you need to help those new hatchlings fly. you need to feed views to them until they can stand on their own and send that profit back to you. in the businiess world this is called an ROI or return on investment.


And here is also where Youtube Lacked the foresight to make the causual user a permanant user in mass amounts that might have turned itprofitable. there is such a wealth of talent on youtube. it has always been my assertion that if youtube fully understood that, they may have developed "shows" around that talent and featured that show much like they did with Youtube Live in November. sorry did i just spin your head?Ma bad!


Lets say it this way, Youtube could have gone LONELYGIRL15 on every one, created a regular saturday Night Live variety show of its ownand promoted that as a weekly event to draw people away from the tv and keep them on the computer. a three hour event each friday where youtube does a skit based or viewer interactive content that engaged its visitors by using the wealth of videos it receives everyday as the content.


The Reason LonelyGirl15 worked is because it captivated its audience by being regular, interactive and emotionally compelling. IMHO, youtube could have easily taken this model and applied it to a "FEATRUE SHOW" every week inwhich they organizesd the best of the best of youtube and showcased it on its own weekly Saturday night live structure. Oh wait, i hear ya, you're saying "THATS what featured videos are for!!". Featured videos look at one entities talent, a saturday night SHOW would feature MANY PEOPLES talentbecause for all that i have been here, i have seen SO MANY talented people that its almost OBVIOUS that a show like an Internet Saturday Night Livecould be produced Easily. Nuff said on that point, lets get back to the Subculture or "Migrant City" as i like to refer to them.


I love how people seem to feel they have a sense of entitlement to things when there is no ownership what so ever. "Well i upload videos to youtube that i create so youtube owes me something"No it doesnt? lets face facts people, Youtube is a Business that allows you, the USER of that business, to post videos for free, that doesnt entitle you to squwat. Youtube tried a business plan of using only User generated content and in many small ways it worked. the onyl area it didnt workis , it didnt return a profit. business is based on profit, like out lemonade stand example. If you arent making money and arent owned by google, your lemonade stand business will become dust on a shelf some where.


This subculture element was not something youtube expected, yet under its Huge growing Structure, a tent city grew along with it and a culture of users formedinto groups of people that supported the site as well as each other. But along the way, this group of people seemed to start assuming ownership of youtubein some sense of the word anyway, and while they did fuly engage the site into their waking days and night, the "possessionism" grew fanaticallyand people almost pretended to have MADE this site becuase they posted videos to it and were apart of a commmunity? well let me jst notify Google of that and we can all share the bills for things like servers and storage and bandwidth and remote locations. getting the picture yet? you dont own youtube, it is owned by google that is a coporation bent on world domination of the internet, a more or less dictatorialy ruler to be?


IMHO, we have all been guinea pigs for an experiment that started out quite innocently. we can pat ourselves on the back and say we did help revealand build a market for streaming media. the experiment has always been, can revenue be generated by online, streaming videoAnd would people come and watch it to produce that revenue stream. In simpler words, would commercials work in onlne video in the samemanner as they do on TV? And are we due anything for that effort? No, be happy you have a spot in the Migrant City under the behemouth structue that is now youtube. be happy you are generating some revenue if you are a partner, how ever great or meeger that maybe.


The Grim reality is, the average Youtube viewer is not some one of the subculture/community, tent city. Rather, the average youtube viewer is causual , only comes to seevideos that were in the news, looking for a clip of a favorite movie or wants to see a music video. We, of the Miniority, go to youtube religiously, but if you ask a group of normal every day teens and or adults, what do you go to see on youtube, 9 times out of 10 the answer will be the same. I wanted to see that guy get kicked in teh Nuts, or i wanted to see miley Cyrus's latest music video. You will not hear any of the names you, as a member of this community, spoken by those of the outside world. I know i conducted that experiment on a few of my many travels to gatherings around the world. Ok with one exception, i did start to hear the nameFred mentioned, but do you really consider him part fo the subculture? Exactly my point, infact to bare this out even more, look at what POPTUB featuresthey arent featuring users of youtube, they seem to be able to find the cute kitties or Kicked in the nuts shots that the REAL AVERAGE USER seeks.


So when the change is made and the Subculture is placed on the back burner for the more profit turning videos from movies, tv and the music industrydont feel too bad, i promise to bring a light bulb to our darkened closet and we can all moan about how youtube has forgotten us together, holding hands and yes you can borrow my hanky. Please be sure to pack extra light bulbs for your self as well. the fact of the mattter remains, this change isnt going to effect you as much as it is being given creedance. if you really look at it, all user videos have been in the closet for some time now.Just because the focus now turns to the most popular music, movie and tv videos doesnt mean this is a change other than to sayYoutube is following its statitics and statiscally, the average youtube viewer looks for these types of video as well as those viralvideos they hear about on the news. oh and throw in a cute kittie or puppy video and you now define the average youtube viewer. we of the subculture account for very little revenue into youtube, and thus the change. Dont believe me? search the most viewed videos . All i know is, I'll still be here
your Honor, i rest my case! this is the Mighty Thor, SEEE YA!

The Etiquette Of Internet Friendship

I am often dismayed at how people treat each other, that a little whisper can hurt so many people. Here is the tale of one whisper, that was spoken last night.
For the record, you have to understand where this is coming from. I am the type of person that does not RULE a friendship and in that i mean, i would never say to you, you shouldnt do this and shouldnt do that when it comes to other people in this world. I live my life by saying to myself, i wouldnt do/say that to you. That said, here is my side of the events of "Pissed Off" Night on blogtv.

On the internet, as in this world, there are many distinct personalities, most of which i have had the privilege of inter-action with. I adore any one who finds me funny, attractive, good hearted and in that adoration comes a built in loyalty. it is a fierce loyalty that leads me to defend you til the bitter end. That loyalty continues until i find a reason it should not be rewarded. Unfortunately some people feel the need to push that limit up before i have decided it has been reached. for arguments sake that isnt to say i dont listen to others advice, i do. However that advice is invalid when a statement like this is Uttered "I dont really talk to him/her, he or she is just annoying me". Is that a poor decision? If you have abslutely NO knowledge of what a person is like, how can you make a judgement on what is going on in the chat?

There are so many behind the scene jokes that go on, on the internet, they are easily mis-interpreted by those ouside the joke. the need for people to fit in is so great, that people go outside themselves to do so. it is an inborn need, instilled in every human being. to belong.
And who are any of us to deny that? I do not count my self in this group. as far as i am concerned, we all belong together until you prove me wrong. I wasa freak once, i was abandoned by more people than i care to remember, those scars never heal, they lay festering.

I believe every one has a place in my blogtv room. And that is because i have had an interaction with each and every one of you that has made me smile and feel loved. some of these interactions are stronger than others, thats a natural occurrence when people of like mind click.
But I truly adore each and every one of you...until you cross me. I have yet to figure out if this is a curse or a blessing but it is in my nature to love, to hold each and every one of your dearly with in my heart and to be unquestionably loyal to you. Cross me and i will be come colder than any artic or subarctic temperature you have ever heard about. its either a curse or a blessing.

In the end, its all about getting along and being tolerant of one and another and knowing that each and every one of us is unique and worthy of love, friendship and acknowledgement, No Matter how annoying or funny, no matter how good or bad, right or wrong.
We all have scars that never heal that lead us to remember the pain we have felt that has molded us into the person we are, some choose to use that to better themselves. others lie in a darkened corner and bitterly fight the world in some way of extracting revenge. I am the former rather than the latter, and I WOULDNT DO THAT TO YOU. I love you all, see you next Thursday if not sooner. this is the Mighty Thor saying SEEE YA!

The Fleeting Sense of FAME

So i have 45 minutes to go at work, i write to fast, i get my work done too fast. it leaves me time to blog.

I am watching every one, "rise to fame" on youtube. i think its a funny thing. i think just about every single one of them deserve it. But here is my quandary with FAME. its not EVER LASTING.

I was trying to make this point to KevJumba in Toronto and failed miserably because i don't think he understood where i was coming from. But lets give it a go here, shall we?

What is FAME? yeah i can cop out and quote Andy Warhol and go with the old fifteen minutes of fame theory but, WHY? Why beat a dead horse? Its a Beaten to death. it not only has been beaten to death but i am pretty sure the horse has been pulverised into fertilizer, but i digress.

No matter the degree of overused something is, if it is tried and true, it always rings true, at least in this case.

Lets take the Youtube fame thingy-mabob. FAME is like a tide, its up and its down, its up and its down, its up and its down. (Are you getting seasick yet?) Youtube seems to twist and twirl that FAME genre and throw it down to the ground to do a little Mexican hat dance on FAME.

Lets face it, nothing lasts for ever. Since my time on youtube, I have watched some talented people disappear and watch new ones emerge. They stay for a bit, Play with the idea that they have some form of celebrity then, cant take the illusion of Youtube FAME and vanish. Lets site the Case of DaxFlame or Currently FRED. their Acts, their Videos have shelf life. Most people in this world have Shelf Life. What is Shelf Life? the Time that this act will take to go stale and no one will want it anymore. think of it as an expiration date on milk or eggs?

this is one of the tried and true ideas of all things, NOTHING SHOULD EVER stay the SAME. But this is one of those OLD rules people seem to forget and thus they succumb to there own shelf life and vanish.

What can save you from Shelf Life? Re-invention. And here is the point i failed to make to KevJumba. It doesn't Matter what you are doing right now, your FAME is fleeting. Your Shelf Life, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, will over take you and you will get tired and old. (Well At least your act will)

You have to be like the MR.Saftey's, Nalts, LisaNovas of this world and keep re-inventing your fame. The Question is, how many more times will they continue to do it?

Why didn't i Mention Michael Buckley in here? I think Buckely is a unique character and person. I think of all the people i know or have met, Michael will make the crossover from Youtube celebrity to strict writer/producer and be none the worst for wear when he does. Because even he will admit to you, he knows he has shelf life.

What about me you ask? Do i think i am above this fray? Absolutely freaking NOT. i don't play on youtube for FAME, its a hobby and its fun. Yeah I'll be first to admit i am an attention whore but not to the extent that it over takes my life. There is no Priority to get a video done, I'll get to it. I will also be content to meet the people who come and go.

I Said it Once, I'll say it again. I'll still be here, even after you have gone. I mean after all, this place does still need a janitor doesn't it?

This is the Mighty Thor, Talking about FAME and wondering, WHEN will you vanish?

SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YA!

What Is Love, Baby Dont hurt me?

So i was sitting around the other day and got my self thinking on the topic of the Phrase, I LOVE YOU. Hmmmm I Love You. WHY? if you arent in my immediate family, arent dating me and dont intend to date me, is that really the right choice of words? Shocked? probably, however, let me explain.
I LOVE YOU is a reserve phrase, it can not be bandied about like a kite on a string in my world. Ok maybe i am being narrow minded, but hear me out. I LOVE YOU is sacred to me, just like sex. Yeah, you can say it or do it, but how do you feel afterwards. I dont say I LOVE YOU to Friends, unless they have been friends a LONG time. And even then its Love ya man, or Luv Ya Dude/Chick.




When my nieces and nephews say it to me, i know what they mean and while i like to hear it, its not exactly LOVE. They LOVE me because i spoil them. Their concept of love at this point in time revolves around toys, candy and a big scoop of Dip n Dots Ice cream. Thats fine, they are kids after all. Thats Not Love. Thats Caring, thats treating some one kindly "LIKE" instead of "LOVE". I can say do it for the love of my brother.

Confused yet? I'm am getting there.

I have heard the phrase tossed around like a sack of mcdonalds fries to the point were it becomes ubiquitous with hello. And in hearing it handled in that manner, makes me wonder if peoples concept of love has been degraded in our "i want it all Now" society.


Too many people want it too fast, they want it too soon. Patience, in this world, is gold or diamonds that are deep with in the mines of a persons soul that they, themselves, know its there. They are just waiting for it to mine itself out and have it fall into their being. Until that Happens, they fill the happy void with the phrase I LOVE YOU like it is emotional dynamite. Yeah, one thing wrong with that plan, they didnt hook the fuse up to that dynamite, so every time the lever is pushed down, it emits sparks some where in an undisclosed location, no where near the stack of dynamite it is meant to fire off.


What about Love at first site? to me that falls into the romantic category. Yes i believe in Love at first site, i have had love at first site. some times it was actual love and sometimes it was just Lust disguised as cute and fuzzy bunny called LOVE. However, that is my only exception of when I LOVE YOU is not wasted. And while this is a tad off topic, i do believe people are "fated" to be together, that there is a connection from a past life that ties souls together. Not every soul recognizes the other soul from that past life connection, yet they are inextricably drawn to each other until they either realize it, or deny it. But thats another blog.

So Back to the matter at hand. I believe I LOVE YOU should be EARNED. I think it should be fought for tooth, nail and finger, maybe a foot. I think the old description of a Knight going off to slay a dragon before being married to the princess applies to my belief. WHY? Because its not a candy bar, its not ice cream, its not a toy. It is a deep emotional feeling that is craved by every human soul in this world. It is the same emotion that drives one to company to stave off the feeling of being alone or unwanted. IT MEANS THINGS to people. It will also confuse people.

How many times in your life have you heard some one question you "BUT...BUT you said you love me?". I find it odd that people really dont comprehend the amount of people who disgnate them selves as "LONELY" souls, LOST souls or LOVE SEEKING MAGNETS. ( ok i threw that in cause it sounded funny, but that my description, LOVE SEEKING MAGNET).



This is why Stalkers exist, as far as i am concerned. Not every one is as smart as you would like them to be. Peoples conception of their own reality surrounding them can be tilted or off base enough so they misinterpet a Smile?, a gesture, a PHRASE like I LOVE YOU. To most people there are not seven degrees of seperation when it comes to LOVE, it either IS or ISNT.
Lonely people tend to gravitate towards the "LOVE GIVERS" like a person leaving a darkened cave seeking light and warmth. Think about it for a second. Your concept of LOVE is not theirs.

Too many times we think because, WE understand what we mean, EVERY ONE gets it.
Sorry people this really is a DOG eat DOG world. It is that way because so many people have so many ways to think about their realities and definitions of their vocabulary. So many people leave it to so many others to interpet their actions and words.



Stil not getting it? Let me put it to you this way. You Love your mom, dad or some immediate family member. Why? CAUSE THEY EARNED IT. You love your DOG or CAT or what ever PET you have WHY? because they EARNED IT. they earned it by being there for you both emotionally and physically. they have braved a path for you to walked down unharmed. THEY SLAYED the DRAGON for you.

got it YET? how bout this? If i loved you and a bus was barreling uncontrollabley towards you and i was the only one that could save you and it meant giving up my life, i wouldnt think twice about it.



This is the way i look at LOVE. EARN IT, dont assume its like the virtual candy bar. (nom nom nom dont you love it). If you are offended by this post, ask yourself why? I wasnt offended when you said you love me, i understood our concepts are different. No harm, No foul. I'm a realist, and i like things Black and White.

This is the Mighty Thor, standing in for Cupid, who is currently drunk on an island in fiji, with your lesson on the Phrase "I LOVE YOU". SEEEEEEE YAAAAAA!

Diary of Desolation

And Kaos did greet me. He stood before me,his face a spinning cube of human suffering. He layed binds upon me, strapped me to a chair and brought fourth the views and vignettes that exposed the mortal soul in its weakest moments. Despair rained down upon me, trapped in my belted chair, helpless to do nothing more but stare,hypnotised at grievous images that danced before my eyes. Kaos' relentless attacks of media stream after media stream of the carnage that immersed me like violent ocean rip currents. numbed by the the overwhelming shock and horror,

i could only drown with in the rippling media. My eyes pained me, unable to close or look. I felt it better if they were to melt and peel away, enough so to make me prey for the heat of a nuclear explosion to end my undieing sight. but i was not to be so blessed.

In a Rage and desolation, my Brain cried out, "I WILL NOT LET KAOS DEFEAT ME" and it echoed and built into a symphony of courage. "I WILL NOT LET KAOS DEFEAT ME", it repeated. i could feel it coursing through my veins, fluttering through my flesh like a newly birthed stream that yearned to be a mighty river. "I WILL NOT LET KAOS DEFEAT ME". the chorus of voices continued. and then that river was roared into life and the earth did shutter, the room did quake. i could hear the sighs bending of steel, moaning and groaning of the ache of movement. Glass shattered and twinkled to the ground like freed diamonds from the mine. the wood splintered and cracked with the Force of thunder, spewing a spray of splinters as thick as honey bees returning to their queen. "I WILL NOT LET KAOS DEFEAT ME" I finally cried out popping my bonds and they flew loose from my chair until i was constrained no more."I WILL NOT LET KAOS DEFEAT ME" i breathed softly as Kaos retreated.

For now he remains at bay. But Kaos is a sly and dire monster. he can consume you at any time and at any cost. i know he stands leering waiting for my next weakness or breakdown.

Until our next battle, Kaos, until our next battle. For now i remain stronger than thee. I remain stronger than thee.

****this is text to my next video titled "Diary Of Desolation". Yeah my brain thinks this way.

Son of a Pirate

I am the son of a pirate. a modern day pirate. what you thought they were only pirates of the Caribbean? Oh no my little wenches and deck polishers, did you not know about the pirates of the Hudson?

Sit back me hardies and let me tell the true story of the "Pirates Of the Hudson".

In the murky river between New York city and New jersey, beneath the halls of industries' puffing stacks of billowing smoke, there once was a fleet of pirates. They freely roamed underneath the out stretched arm of the lady Liberty, contested by none. For within the stealthiness of the darkened night, did these pirates do their deeds.

Lady Liberty represented their motto, "Free to be sailors, Free to be Pirates" and in that time, the flame of liberty burned for them, lighting their way to the treasures on shore, these Pirates of the Hudson.

For in the land before the days of chain link fences, nosey security cameras and the stinging zip of motion sensors, there were bounties a plenty, waiting to be had on the docks that lapped up these waters of the Hudson River.
Boxed bounty, crated bounty or just open bounty begging to be rescued from these "islands of wood". There were rivers of swash buckling mouthwash flavored in gin, rum and scotch. there were jewels a plenty in the form of radios, TVs and other household items. there were buffets of food, meats and fishes, the kind that made a pirates belly ache for taste.
And dreaded and feared most of all, the flag ship of these scoundrel pirates - the swift and speedy tugboat, The Richard Key.

Its captain, a steely eyed, iron fisted man of the sea, whose name to this day cannot be whispered upon the Hudson with out sending security guards diving for cover in a gut shaking panic. For the sake of the Story, lets refer to my father as Captain "Dark Eye", master of the waters from the 59th street piers to the tip of Manhattan island.
In the years between the mid 1960's up until the early 1970's, their were none more adept at agility and covert operations than captain and crew of the Richard Key.

As night time befell the city and the residents sought shelter underneath the warmth of blankets in their homes, did the echoing of ship bells ring out, startling the stars themselves. there was no need for swords a blazing, nor was there necessity of blaring cannon fire, for the cover of a lonely tugboat looking for a port to lay her tired propellers to rest for the night, always did the trick. The Port masters weren't any less scurvy or dire, for they could be paid to glance away at the traffic in the street for a 20.00 dollar gold piece. it was whispered among all the wooded isles of the Hudson, "out of sight, out of mind", as the pass code and the coming of the pillaging and plundering of the mountains of imported goods from many a far away land.

And aye, they did plunder away and brought home the exotic treasures of the day. Many a day did arrive the worldly treasures through the doorways of my home. from freshly syphoned fuel, to banana bunches a plenty to finely crafted TV consoles, they did traverse the path ways of the Hudsons river to the main roads of the Garden State Parkway and down the little blackened paved street, awkwardly hanging from the back seat or overloaded trunk of a 1968 Pontiac le mans. Dark, like the captain Dark Eye himself, his faithful stallion of steel did carry his booty to his lair for all to see the riches that were spirited away in this excursion of duty.

My father was a pirate of the Hudson. One of many in the days of simple times, when outlaws provided for their families in ways that were never thought of as anything other than built from need. Yes i am a son of a pirate, and i can tell you, there are stories to be told, the likes of which you had to live to believe.
I am the Son of a pirate and proud to know these stories. And like many a good pirate story, they are to be continued.

this is theMightythor saying
See Ya!

Your Epidermis is Showing

Remember that joke from like 5th grade? your epidermis is showing. At that age, what the hell was an epidermis right? For all you knew, your friends learned a new word for penis and yours was sticking out. Or if a girl, it was a fancy way of saying, there is a nipple exposure bursting from your training bra, in which case just about every girl that age would be proud. it meant the booby fairy had laid her magic boobie wand upon her chest and womanhood was close at hand.

Now that the Chain of naked vlogging videos are popping out on Youtube (literally), it just makes me wonder about this American culture of ours.

I am besides myself that we remain such a puritan society about nudity, let alone sex. I fully realize this country was started by overly dressed pilgrims afraid to even disrobe in the dark in front of anyone and that they believed the body was a temple of sin if we gave into the lust of the flesh.

Is it me or does any one else wanna go back in time and drop kick those pricks back over the ocean. Why couldn't the pilgrims have been a group of nudist pagans looking for a field to dance around naked in? I am pretty sure the Indians would have like the white man better if we paraded around naked like a bunch of hippies at Woodstock.

So why do we so sacredly hold on to this belief when other countries seemed to have made the leap. On any given day, providing its warm, a french citizen will gleefully throw off their clothes to sit on a beach on the Cote` Azur in the buff with out the bat of an eye. and it doesn't matter the age.

As an American visiting France, i basically pissed off the girl i took over there because of the head whipping force my eyes were causing, staring at all the breasts there. but that's a natural American reaction, WOW BOOBIES, i Must see them ALL!

But after a few days of wondering why i was getting migraines from neck strain, it dawned on me. At the age of 24 i had an epiphany. Look at how beautiful the landscape is when it is covered with the human body of any age and gender. And what stood out the most, contrary to my American up bringing, it seems so "normal" to just be topless or naked in such a way that the residents there didn't drop on their hind quarters and start howling at all the moons there. there was such an appreciation of the human body it transcended any hint of sex.

I adopted that attitude for the rest of my entire life. Our American culture is all to ready to embrace or glorify violence over nudity unless of course you will be nude and violent, then that seems ok. But god forbid a woman or man, stepping calmly onto a beach semi nude or completely nude, do the puritans start screaming "Satan has left the tanning salon and stepped off into the sand". frankly, the only people screaming that are the people no one would want to see naked any way. lets just say they let their bodies reform in the the un-molded clay it once was?

Isn't that just the thought right there? On network news, they will proudly show, with a small warning, half a dozen bodies being thrown across the sky like human rain drops, yet blur any nude body that might be in the next story? Hang on, my brain just tilted like a pinball machine, i am resetting now.

According to psychology, two thoughts circumnavigate the brain every seven seconds - sex and death. every advertising commercial hints at either of those thoughts. there is a 70 billion dollar a year of porn bought in the USA alone, yet no one admits to buying it. Instead of teaching our children about the responsibility of sex, we feed them birth control at ages as early as 5th grade.
(yes there are well over 1700 middle schools in the USA that have that policy). did you ever wonder why Blue is used in the majority of commercials? (its the most attractive color to the human eye)

But we will let them watch Rambo blow up half a dozen soldiers in some made for TV movie? But don't you dare tell them any thing about nudity. No no No you bad bad puppy. did you know, 70% of marriages around the world end because of bad sexual relations in a marriage?

Maybe drop kicking the pilgrims is too kind! maybe i should take the eye for an eye approach, get drunk, bash their brains in, film it and send it back to the future for a made for Disney movie. yeah i never claimed to have answers, only pent up frustration stemming from lack of nudity in my life all because of some penguin imitators who were to stupid to move SOUTH where its warm and would influence the wearing of less clothes. Maybe that's it! Damn the weather, it caused all this lack of Nudity. damn god for not giving us a clothes repelling body. and maybe damn us....Damn us for not being vocal enough against this squeaky wheel mentality we have here. we are too easy going to protest, i guess this is what we deserve. even no decision is a decision, just like zero is a number. Damn us all for embracing violence over nudity.

I think will go stand in front of a mrror , beat myself up and feel better about my self.

****Note: the picture displayed was chosen because in my eyes, there is nothing more beautiful then when a new mother stands before a mirror and smiles at the birth of her child. its the beginning of the circle of life and holds so much promise. and that in itself is beautiful.****

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